MAJOR MISCALCULATION, NOT THAT IT MATTERS
Dr. Nespah of the International Observatory held an emergency press conference early this morning to announce a "major astronomical blunder". Apparently, several scientists doing backup calculations on paper erroneously moved the decimal place over to the right. This caused errors throughout the observatory's data.
"We're still assessing the damage," Dr. Nespah told the press, "But so far it seems that with the corrected data, our galaxy is actually .7% smaller than we thought it was."
Dr. Nespah also handed out a datasheet on Omicron Theta, the star most affected by the adjusted calculations. "It looks like everything's going to be okay," he assured, "but it's a good thing we caught this error before we tried to fly all the way to Omicron Theta, because we'd be off by almost half a light-year."
The International Observatory is requesting a $31 billion emergency fund to pay for the work of correcting all data. Dr. Nespah warns that other stars' positions are undoubtedly affected as well, and the data MUST be checked over and corrected before any interstellar travel can begin.
